faucet | meaning of faucet in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishTechnologyfaucetfau‧cet /ˈfɔːsɪt $ ˈfɒː-/ ●●○ noun [countable] American English     Tthe thing that you turn on and off to control the flow of water from a pipe SYN tap British EnglishExamples from the Corpusfaucet• He did both faucets outside and all my antennas.• How could he make warm water run from faucets?• Along one wall is a row of faucets for washing, with drains in the sloping tiled floors.• I turn on some faucets and water flows into the dishwasher.• At first the water evaporated as soon as it left the faucet, turning into red steam when it hit your body.• Shut off the faucet with its knee control.• Since my first days in the Congress, I have supported efforts to turn off the faucet of big-money campaign contributions.Origin faucet (1300-1400) Old French fausset “something that closes a hole in a container”, from Late Latin falsare “to make false”